All along, what the net neut crazies have lacked in intellectual consistency they've made up in fealty to the business interests of companies that fear their services would become unattractive if users had one eye on a bandwidth meter.

It seems like ancient history now, but BitTorrent — a program used to exchange everything from TV shows to motorcycle shop manuals, often in violation of copyright laws — gave rise to one of the two episodes hugged to the breast of the net neut campaigners.